The philosophy, design and implementation of the CFHT Archive system will be presented. Data from several CFHT instruments will be archived at the CADC/DAO starting in January 1992. Aspects of the data acquisition system at CFHT which pertain to the archive will be discussed as will the hardware and software being implemented at the CADC for storing and accessing the archive. The CFHT Board of Directors has set a proprietary period of 2 years on data taken at CFHT so that the first data will be available from the archive in 1994.